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To: Uncle Chip
There is no evidence that Peter was ever in modern day Iraq. And there is good reason to believe that if Peter had been in Iraq, the believers there would have been quite vocal about that, as a matter of honor and prestige.

-A8

1,198 posted on 10/24/2006 11:44:25 AM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8
"There is no evidence that Peter was ever in modern day Iraq"

He was in Babylon according to 1 Peter 5:13 where he wrote this first epistle circa 65 AD. It was not even part of the Roman Empire then, but part of the Parthian Empire with a substantial Jewish population centering around the Babylonian Talmud.

1,222 posted on 10/24/2006 2:02:04 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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